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Skriven 2008-03-17 18:53:00 av Earl Croasmun (1:226/600)
     Kommentar till en text av Ross Sauer
Ärende: ANOTHER LIE EXPOSED...
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-> Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday the evidence is
-> "overwhelming" that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein's
-> regime in Iraq, and he said media reports suggesting that the 9/11
-> commission has reached a contradictory conclusion were
-> "irresponsible." "There clearly was a relationship. It's been
-> testified to. The evidence is overwhelming," Cheney said in an
-> interview with CNBC's "Capitol Report." -- CNN, June 19, 2004

While you were sleeping, you missed this, also from June 2004, from
members of the commission:

Commissioner Lee Hamilton, for example: "I must say I have trouble
understanding the flap over this. The Vice President is saying, I think,
that there were connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's
government. We don't disagree with that."

Commissioner Tom Kean: "There were contacts between Iraq and al-Qaeda, a
number of them, some of them a little shadowy. They were definitely
there."

And from that 2008 report that you mentioned to begin this thread:

"Because Saddam's security organizations and Osama bin Laden's terrorist
network operated with similar aims (at least in the short term),
considerable overlap was inevitable when monitoring, contacting,
financing, and training the same outside groups. This created both the
appearance of and, in some way, a 'de facto' link between the
organizations. At times, these organizations would work together in
pursuit of shared goals but still maintain their autonomy and
independence because of innate caution and mutual distrust. Though the
execution of Iraqi terror plots was not always successful, evidence
shows that Saddam's use of terrorist tactics and his support for
terrorist groups remained strong up until the collapse of the regime."

You can find the full report at:

http://a.abcnews.com/images/pdf/Pentagon_Report_V1.pdf

Maybe you could read it and continue to set Danny straight.

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